It ain't only Rock & Roll, it's Jazz too

[David Morris]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> But it doesn't follow from that that these Black children are being further
penalized by attempting to teach them the rules of grammar, those governing
educated discourse, being taught to White children.
> 
> Teaching Black children instead some alternate Black grammar seems to me a
grievous, ghastly mistake, a perverse idea that the most hardbitten of racists
would have been proud to have dreamed up.

Amen!  Talk about enslavement.  Too many poor inner city black children already
face a tough uphill battle to be educated out of their "cultural" legacies: 
illiterate parents and peers who place little value on education.  They don't
need to be taught ghetto-talk.  They already know it by heart.  And to suggest
that it be embraced as a standard is absurd.

David Morris

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